Racial appeals just won't go away

Democrats like racial appeals, too, even in the 21st century. A few weeks ago when the state Republican Party announced plans for an ad attacking Barack Obama for his association with his former minister Jeremiah Wright and attacking Democratic gubernatorial candidates Bev Perdue and Richard Moore for having endorsed Obama because of the whacko oratory of Wright, I noted that appeals with racial overtones have long been a part of Tar Heel politics. The Democrats majored in it long before the Republicans, developing it into an ugly art form at the end of the 19th century and using it effectively well into the middle of the 20th century.
Democrats haven't given up their racial appeals in the 21st century. Not long after that column, Richard Moore was making his own use of racial appeals against Perdue, suggesting she had not been sufficiently supportive of moves to crack down on the KKK, implying that she didn't want to protect black people, and associating her with the sale of items bearing Confederate battle flag imagess at stores in Georgia run by her stepson.
Now it's Hillary Clinton making racial appeals. The other day she noted that she was supported by “hard-working Americans, white Americans” -- implying that Obama wasn't supported by hard working white Americans, and, by implication, couldn't win.
Sheesh.